Watching business grow from ground up

Greg Rand, a managing partner with Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty in White Plains, N.Y., and author of the House Rich Blog, will take the stage during the Real Estate Connect SF 2010 conference, which runs from July 13-15 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel. An industry veteran who has offered commentary on real estate market matters for TV news programs, Rand will join Glenn Kelman, CEO for tech-savvy brokerage firm Redfin, in "The Nerd vs. the Networker," a session during the conference. Rand responded to a set of questions posed by Inman News: 1. What is the most important business lesson you learned in the past year? The movements of the real estate market can be predicted with certainty -- not necessarily when the next stage of the cycle will come, but what it will look like as it draws near. I've learned what will come next and how it will first manifest itself, and because the market moves slowly, that's enough. 2. What inspired you t...